Re: Discussing issues

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 01:40:55AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Another case is one where a developer would like to get involved
> and contribute to a certain area, but is just starting out in
> that area, or just starting out with X development period, but
> they've got a lot of questions and either aren't sure where to
> ask, or they fear being treated as incompetant or inferior by
> asking those who do know a lot more about things.
> 
> One of the worst things that can happen to a new developer trying
> to learn how something works, is to be run down into the ground
> for not understanding something the first time, or for not 
> having magically gotten to some higher skill level in the 
> particular portion of code they'd like to work on.  Some people 
> have mentioned in IRC or in mailing lists that they feel 
> discouraged from even working on something from not knowing where 
> to get help, or from getting stepped on when they do.

That is why i suggested a developper newbie mailing list, something akin
to debian -mentor list. But apparently the xfree-devel list is the
right place for that, so questions should be asked there.

Friendly,

Sven Luther